Depeche Mode Announce New Album DetailsDepeche Mode will release 'Playing The Angel', the follow-up to the 2001 album 'Exciter' on October 17. | The album will be preceded by the single 'Precious' on October 3rd. | Playing The Angel tracks: "A ...The best-laid 'Plans'...On the new album from Death Cab for Cutie, leader Ben Gibbard sings about sitting in a urine-stained intensive care unit, surrounded by ghostly vending machines, old magazines and death. | "Nervous pacers braci...Pornos for the peopleTHE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS | "Twin Cinema" | (Matador) | Can a supergroup bring together musicians most people have never heard of? | The New Pornographers argue that it can. | This sprawling collective features pla...Pop Music Preview: The 'crunk tiara' fits| Sunday, August 14, 2005 By Scott Mervis, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | By the end of the month, Ciara Harris is going to have some tales to tell, maybe enough to fill a book. | | Ciara is keeping her...Pop Music Preview: Boys to Men / Backstreeters regroup after McLean comes clean| Sunday, August 14, 2005 By Scott Mervis, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | To her long list of accomplishments -- which include a No. 1 talk show, countless Emmys, an Oscar nomination, a book club, a federal bill to ...``Belladonna''The appearance of Lanois' ambient album just weeks after a new CD from his mentor Brian Eno shows how vast a gulf can exist between student and teacher. While Lanois' pop-production work (Dylan, U2) sings for i...Why Lennon lives onOn the western edge of New York's Central Park, a sun-dappled mosaic circle on the ground contains the single word 'Imagine'. This is the still, calm centre of Strawberry Fields, a rechristened corner of the pa...Supergrass, Road to RouenSupergrass | Road to Rouen | (Parlophone) | £12.99 | It's hard to reconcile the celebrity shagging shenanigans of Supergrass drummer Danny Goffey with the memories of the perky scamps who made I Should Coc...Miles Davis, 'Round About MidnightMiles Davis | 'Round About Midnight | (Columbia COL 519957 2) | £11.99 | This is the album which marked the start of Miles Davis's rise to a level of public recognition rarely achieved by a jazz musician. ...Family fortunesLove is Strange | by Joseph Connolly | Faber £12.99, pp495 | If Aristotle had been writing the Poetics for the British market, he might have done some tweaking of his formula about the emotions that traged...Music Industry Worried About CD Burning| Music copied onto blank recordable CDs is becoming a bigger threat to the bottom line of record stores and music labels than online file-sharing, the head of the recording industry's trade group said Friday. ...